Joe Carter’s Home Run – 2015 Heritage Award
Born in 1960, Joe started his professional baseball career in
Over the long history of sport in Ontario, there have been many one-time events – one game, one series, one memorable day or moment – that will be remembered and cherished, not only by sports fans, by the entire country as well.
The Ferguson Jenkins Heritage Award was introduced in 2011 to commemorate those one-of-a-kind events or special moments in time that so embellish the long history of sports in Ontario. There were some serious options for that first selection. In the end, a satisfying nod to Terry Fox, who, back in 1980, just happened to be passing through these parts on his heart-breaking/heart-lifting Marathon of Hope.
Babe Ruth’s First Professional Home Run – 2014 Heritage Award
On the night of September 5, 1914, the Providence Greys
Arnold Palmer – 2013 Heritage Award
Perhaps no figure in the history of golf injected more
Paul Henderson (Hockey)- 2012 Heritage Award
On Sept. 22, 1972, game 5 of the epochal eight-game
